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phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: an Arch-derivative distro?

On a side note, have you seen http://frugalware.org and http://www.rubix-os.org ? Both use pacman, though rubix uses slackware's package structure.

Frugalware isn't Arch- it's Slackware core using (renamed) RPM packages, and pacman as package+dependency manager. Not a bad distro, but still quite buggy.
Rubix resembles Arch a bit more, but still it ain't Arch and not noob friendly, either...

That's backwards - frugalware uses the exact same Arch packages, just renamed to ".fpm" (go ahead and extract one, you'll see .PKGINFO and .FILELIST, etc).  Rubix packages are the same as well - rubix just uses slackware's *layout* (i.e. a/blah, ap/blah)

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dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: an Arch-derivative distro?

our forums here.

no mailing list atm, nor chatroom, though since dibble had joined were gonna have 4 Archie based distros already... so maybe we would... 8)

I was wondering if we should all chip in and go for some hosting with some CVS, mysql, php, a stack of sub domains, mailman....